Just as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end, Lumiere Vancouver returns for a 5th year to light up long Vancouver nights. This weekend the beloved winter festival brings three nights of interactive art installations land activities to three iconic Vancouver sites: English Bay, Jim Deva Plaza, šx????n?q Xwtl’e7én? Square, formerly known as the North Plaza of…
Author: Jay Minter
Backbone Makes You Sit Up & Take Notice
Backbone, now playing at the Vancouver Playhouse, is edge of your seat entertainment! Presented by The Cultch, Australian circus troupe Gravity and Other Myths (GOM) will literally throw your perceptions of circus out the window. Like other contemporary circus/physical theatre troupes, GOM tests the boundaries of the human body. Backbone strips down any flashy sets…
Picks of the Week – October 31, 2018
It’s Halloween night! As the veil between realms is lifted, get out and have a hauntingly good time. Then get ready to fill the longer nights of November with more entertaining picks of the week. Fright: It’s the final night to experience the thrills and chills of the haunted houses, rides and ghouls of Fright Nights…
It’s time for A Christmas Story
As the Halloween season wraps, the calendar flips to bring on the next holiday season. To start Festive season Align Entertainment presents the holiday classic A Christmas Story: The Musical to the Michael J. Fox Theatre stage in Burnaby, opening November 2nd. The multi-Ovation Award-winning producers at Align have assembled a talented cast of local stars and young up-and-comers for…
Free Film Screening of Miscellaneous Productions “Monsters”
Vancouver’s MISCELLANEOUS Productions is a non-profit, charitable society using art as a path for social change and personal transformation in culturally and socially at-risk youth – empowering them to be fully participating citizens. Last year, the company debuted, Monsters – an anti-racism, anti-bullying play with hip hop and World music and dance. Funding from Heritage…
David Wilson brings Water to Kimoto Gallery
Water, water everywhere. That expression is especially apt here in Vancouver. In a new series of paintings, Water, coming to the Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver artists David Wilson looks at the natural watery surroundings and rain-soaked city streets of his hometown. Locals viewing his works will recognize not just familiar streets and harbours of Vancouver but…
The Arts Club makes you Sweat
The Tony-nominated play, Sweat, is now on stage at the Arts Club Theatre Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. A co-production with Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, this production is the Canadian Premiere of playwright Lynn Nottage’s second Pulitzer prize winner. A gritty, raw drama that gives the audience a glimpse into the lives of a small group of…